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Former intelligence chief heads security delegation to Sinai
Al-Masry Al-Youm 28 Dec 2012
Former General Intelligence Service chief Mourad Mowafy headed up a security delegation to Sinai on Friday afternoon....
In this Wednesday, Jan. 7, 1998 file photo, the shadow of Mount Sinai stretches across the valley at the foot of the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine in the Sinai peninsula some 240 miles southeast of Cairo, Egypt.(AP Photo/Enric Marti, File)
Masked gunmen storm Mount Sinai power station
Al-Masry Al-Youm 28 Dec 2012
Masked gunmen stormed the power station at Mount Sinai at dawn on Friday, stealing electricity cables worth LE900,000...
Dozens of African migrants cross into southern Israel through the border with Egypt.
Five migrants arrested in Sinai
MENA 26 Dec 2012
Central Security Forces arrested five migrants in Central Sinai, allegedly en route to cross illegally into Israel. The...
Army and Bedouins thwart rocket smuggling to Gaza
MENA 24 Dec 2012
Armed Forces personnel in North Sinai, in cooperation with local Bedouins, foiled an attempt on Monday to smuggle 17...
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi overseeing military exercises
Defense minister bans private land ownership on eastern border
Al-Masry Al-Youm 23 Dec 2012
Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday banned the private ownership, rental and use of nearly all land on...
Dozens of African migrants cross into southern Israel through the border with Egypt.
Sinai revolutionary group threatens to demolish Dayan Rock
Al-Masry Al-Youm 17 Dec 2012
The Free Sinai movement is in the process of mobilizing popular and revolutionary forces to demolish Dayan Rock,...
Migrants from Eritrea eat while resting in a building, used to house people waiting to be smuggled into Israel, near the Egyptian-Israeli border in Sinai.
Security forces arrest migrants crossing border into Israel
DPA 08 Dec 2012
Security forces have prevented 10 migrants from Sudan and Horn of Africa from crossing the border into Israel. A police...
The Sinai mountains silhouetted at sunset behind Sharm el-Sheikh's main mosque. Bedouin in Egypt's Sinai on Saturday released three South Korean tourists and their Egyptian tour guide a day after their abduction, South Sinai's governor told AFP. (AFP Photo/Hasan Mroue)
Two Russian tourists killed in Sinai crash
DPA 30 Nov 2012
  Two Russian tourists were killed and two others injured in a car crash in South Sinai, the consular department...
An Egyptian soldier stands guard at a checkpoint in Rafah city on the Egyptian border, 6 August 2012. Islamist gunmen killed at least 15 Egyptian police on Sunday and seized two military vehicles to attack a crossing point into Israel, the deadliest incident in Egypt's tense Sinai border region in decades.
Four injured in Sinai blast
Al-Masry Al-Youm 25 Nov 2012
Four people were injured in a blast at a partially constructed building belonging to the Central Security Forces in...
Military denies that foreign troops will be deployed in Sinai
Egypt Independent 24 Nov 2012
  Military Spokesperson Mohamed Ahmed Ali denied plans to deploy US forces in Sinai as part of a ceasefire...